This week marks the 20th anniversary of when an audience heard Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for the first time. The band played it at Seattle’s OK Hotel near Pioneer Square and the rest as they say, is history. A new exhibit at the Experience Music Project called “Taking Punk To The Masses: from Nowhere to Nevermind” looks at all of the factors that led to Nirvana explosion onto the global music scene.

Community Culture

4:29 pm

Tue April 5, 2011

Kurt Cobain fans explore the underside of the Young Street Bridge in Aberdeen Tuesday. The spot is one of the few places fans can go to pay their respects to the musician, who died 17 years ago Tuesday.

Seventeen years after his death, legendary Pacific Northwest grunge guitarist Kurt Cobain is finally being fully embraced by his former home town.

A concrete sculpture replicating one of his guitars is now installed in a city park in Aberdeen. Steven Friederich, a news reporter with the Aberdeen Daily World, who has a story on the unveiling on the site today, says for years, Aberdeen rejected Cobain as a drug addict.